The highlights of video editing
I think everyone will agree that there are a lot of stupid videos on YouTube. I personally hate the ones that are just video montages from people’s favorite show or movie put to music.
But that isn’t the point of this blog entry. The point is, among all the low quality stuff that really isn’t interesting unelss you’re the person who made it, there are a few gems.
Sometimes you’ll have a funny series of shorts such as Chad Vader or Mr. Deity, or random cool videos of a dog skateboarding.
But I find that some of the best stuff can come from talented editing of professional movies to turn them into something … different.
What I am talking about is that genre of videos that takes clips from a movie, adds in music and edits clips from the movie together into a “preview” that shows the movie to be very different from what it actually is. A different storyline and a different genre.
Examples of these would be Shining and 10 Things I Hate About Commandments.
I feel these kinds of videos show a great sense of humor from the maker and a lot more originality than a silly little video montage.
— Deren Kudeki